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Jay C. Batzner is currently an Assistant Professor at the University of Central Florida where he teaches theory, composition, and technology courses as well as coordinates the composition program. He holds degrees in composition and/or theory from the University of Missouri – Kansas City, the University of Louisville, and the University of Kansas.

Jay's music is primarily focused around instrumental chamber works as well as electroacoustic composition. His music has been recorded on the Capstone, Vox Novus, and Beauport Classical labels and is published by Unsafe Bull Music.

Jay is a sci-fi geek, an amateur banjoist, a home brewer, and juggler.





4/11/2007
I'll be damned if I'm not going to use it...

So I've been playing around with this free granular tool called Amber-X. It is pretty cool, especially for being free.

I made the mistake of loading in a 36 MB file and asking it to generate a 60 second clip with maximal morphing grains.

That was at 11:15 this morning. It is 4:30 now.

Progress complete: 90%. Each 10% takes longer than the last.

It was my fault, really, for cramming such a big file into it. But now I HAVE to know what it sounds like. And I shall.

Tomorrow morning...